Since the terminals on my truck were getting bad and I needed new batteries, I decided to install military terminals and then drive down to costco and get some new interstates. Costco increases the warranty to 42 month's and only charges $180 for both batteries. 
Here's the cart of electrical goodness. 1/0 fine strand battery cable to replace the crossover to the drivers battery, heavy duty terminals, military terminals, marine grade adhesive shrink wrap, solder, MAP gas torch, cutters, hydraulic crimper, electrical tape, wire loom, and some other odds n ends.
I'm committed to finishing this little project now!
Crimping that HD terminals with the hydraulic crimper. Tool is awesome, it's the 16ton unit. The largest dies I used were 135. Also used 95, 50, 35, and 15 for the job
Impact crimper makes a great wire holder for soldering, heat shrink etc. Here's the drivers side negative terminal after crimp/solder.
Heat shrink and in place.
Re constructing the crossover. I believe this will be a big benefit as the OEM crossover is quite small maybe 4 gauge, didn't measure it. The ground cables are 2 thus it's not sized the same which I've always believed all the major cables should be equally sized.
New larger crossover in place.
I added an 8 gauge lead on the passenger side JIC I ever want a clean 12V tap.
Here's the completed passenger side positive cables to the starter.
Completed passenger side.
Completed drivers side.
Drivers side with the covers in place.
After this, I went to costco and installed the new batteries in the parking lot. :-X22
With the new batteries it starts very nice. Makes me think about a Denso gear reduction starter :-X22
Here's the cart of electrical goodness. 1/0 fine strand battery cable to replace the crossover to the drivers battery, heavy duty terminals, military terminals, marine grade adhesive shrink wrap, solder, MAP gas torch, cutters, hydraulic crimper, electrical tape, wire loom, and some other odds n ends.
I'm committed to finishing this little project now!
Crimping that HD terminals with the hydraulic crimper. Tool is awesome, it's the 16ton unit. The largest dies I used were 135. Also used 95, 50, 35, and 15 for the job
Impact crimper makes a great wire holder for soldering, heat shrink etc. Here's the drivers side negative terminal after crimp/solder.
Heat shrink and in place.
Re constructing the crossover. I believe this will be a big benefit as the OEM crossover is quite small maybe 4 gauge, didn't measure it. The ground cables are 2 thus it's not sized the same which I've always believed all the major cables should be equally sized.
New larger crossover in place.
I added an 8 gauge lead on the passenger side JIC I ever want a clean 12V tap.
Here's the completed passenger side positive cables to the starter.
Completed passenger side.
Completed drivers side.
Drivers side with the covers in place.
After this, I went to costco and installed the new batteries in the parking lot. :-X22
With the new batteries it starts very nice. Makes me think about a Denso gear reduction starter :-X22
